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27 Sep 2017 8:17:45am

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The Japanese PM Abe is the most Rightwing yet. He denies Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 40s, he denies the reality of forced prostitution in the 'Comfort Women' tragedy ( his words in 1996, 'Many so-called victims of the comfort women system are liars...prostitution was ordinary behaviour in Korea because the country had many brothels') and he denies the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. He has picked a fight with China over the Diaoyu Islands, and with South Korea over the Dodko Islands. He has unleashed a currency war by debasing the value of the yen, and he will, of course, prefer nuclear because Japan's gigantic reserves of plutonium are a massive nuclear arsenal just awaiting the order to be turned into weapons. Is it any wonder he is a US favourite?

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